How do you wake up from the Matrix when you don’t know you’re in the Matrix?
Google and other Social Media Companies are Destroying Society
Storyline
Set in the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley, The Social Dilemma fuses investigative documentary with enlightening narrative drama. Expert testimony from tech whistle-blowers exposes our disturbing predicament: the services Big Tech provides-search engines, networks, instant information, etc.-are merely the candy that lures us to bite. Once we’re hooked and coming back for more, the real commodity they sell is their prowess to influence and manipulate us.
Understanding the Dilemma
/the mental health dilemma_
Addiction, anxiety and depression. Platforms
are designed to reward distraction and keep us
hooked – at the expense of our wellbeing – to fuel
their business.
/the democracy dilemma_
Political polarization and divisiveness. Content
that promotes outrage, deception, and conspiracy
is promoted as a way to drive more engagement.
Stronger ideological rifts make cooperation and
compromise increasingly difficult and ultimately
sabotage our democracy.
/the discrimination dilemma_
Algorithmic bias and the amplification of hate.
Algorithms are not equipped to detect hate speech
and the data harnessed by our online activity is
used by institutions in ways that can harm and
discriminate against marginalized communities.
The companies that connected the world and
transformed how we consume information did
so at a cost. The unintended consequences of
exploitative technologies are catching up with
us in the form of:
Those of us who rely on these platforms are
unknowingly complicit in this devil’s bargain,
where we trade our freedom for followers,
our social cohesion for instant connection,
and the truth for what we want to hear.
Learn More
Why the Painful Truth is soon leaving YouTube along with all *Google products, and why you should too.
Google is one of the most powerful companies on earth. The extent to which it has already intertwined itself with our lives is astonishing. It is there in the background, all the time, humming along, helping us perform our daily tasks, and doing a better job of it every day. All the while watching, watching, and storing what is sees.
A notable feature of totalitarianism, hard and soft, is its enmity towards privacy. Totalitarians want to own you, body and soul, and therefore can brook no private lives in their subjects; private thoughts might incubate radical sentiment, and so potentially pose a mortal threat to the regime. You give them clicks, you are giving them money, and they are using that money against you.
Stop Feeding The Beast
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle”
– EDMUND BURKE, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontentment
For what its worth, with all their talk and flag waving, I wonder if the armstrong churches of god will follow suit?
How about you Mark Armstrong?
*Our first (original) Google blog was exported as a WordPress blog site to our server. The posts then were added to this blog, and can be viewed starting HERE. Very simple to do for you who use google products.
Nothing will be lost when we turn off and divorce the Alphabet company.
Bing, Yahoo and other media companies also track you. Don’t use them.
If you don’t do anything else in life, at least stand up for something that is right and just, and for the good of the society in which you live in!
9 Best Anonymous Search Engines That Don’t Track You Like Google
Anonymous source wrote:
YouTube, that vipers’ den where safe space seeking sheeple can feed on BS to their tiny mutton brain’s delight.
However, should one still have a functioning brain….there are many many better alternatives.
Stop the stockholm syndrome bullshit about YouTube, that electronic gulag “safe space” slaughterhouse for sheeple too dumb to think.
Use the alternative platforms.
More tubes (censorship free) than you can shake a stick at.
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/
Faecesbook is for the toilet
https://humansarefree.com/2018/03/youtube-censorship-list-of-banned.html
…and more added every month. Join the fight. Your freedom’s are at stake along with those of your children and grandchildren.